VALENCIA, Calif. — Girlfriends Films (GF) has announced the VOD release of “Women Seeking Women 186” featuring contract star Aubree Valentine.

Valentine shares the cover spotlight with starlet Jasmine Wilde.

“Paired together in the movie are debut performers Jenna Noelle and April Love,” noted a rep. “Misha Cross returns to Girlfriends for the first time since her role in ‘Bad Lesbian 5.’ Here she is matched with Ember Snow, marking Snow’s third consecutive appearance in the ‘Women Seeking Women’ series.”

“And returning starlets Olive Glass and Madi Meadows unite in the fourth scene of the movie, for a total of approximately 2.5 hours of erotic all-girl action,” the rep added.

During filming, Snow tweeted out a behind-the-scenes photo with the caption, “From Girlfriends Films today. Thank you for keeping me warm, Misha Cross.”

Valentine herself tweeted a clip, saying, “So happy to be on set for Girlfriends today,” while Noelle posted a selfie from the set, adding, “Had a blast shooting for Girlfriends!”

“Women Seeking Women 186” is now streaming on VOD here; find additional BTS details here and follow Girlfriends Films on Twitter.

PHILADELPHIA — Tahlia Paris, the February 2022 Penthouse Pet of the Month, has released a new collection of branded merch on Fangear.vip.

Her new line includes phone cases, stone tiles, keychains, tabletop photos and posters, among other items.

“A former Playboy ‘Cyber Girl of the Year,’ Paris is an Instagram headliner and hugely popular magazine personality,” said a rep. “She has also made a definite impact in the music industry as a verified artist and DJ.”

“We couldn’t be more excited,” the rep added. “We’ve had such a great time working with Tahlia and we couldn’t wait to share her with our audience.”

Paris has also launched ShopTahliaParis.com, a new site dedicated to her merch and other offerings.

She described the branded content collaboration as “a great experience.”

“I love working with the Fangear team,” she enthused. “Seriously, they did a great job on my merch and the website; I love it.”

For more information, visit Fangear.vip, and follow them on Twitter.

MESA, Ariz. — Republican legislators in the Arizona House broke ranks with a fellow GOP representative on Wednesday and helped reject her copycat proposal to implement default “porn filters” on phones and computers sold in the state.

The state bill had been introduced in January by Representative Michelle Udall (R-Mesa), a devout Mormon who is also currently running for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction on a platform of fighting against “school closures, contentious mandates and critical race theory.”

House Bill 2115 died when it was rejected by a legislative committee on a 3-7 vote. Three Republicans voted for Udall’s project, but other GOP legislators were fundamental in defeating the measure, which copied a 2021 law passed in Utah.

HB 2115 “would have held companies criminally liable for selling any computer, smartphone or tablet in Arizona without a filter to block children from accessing ‘harmful content,’” the Arizona Mirror reported.

Udall’s copycat bill “would have allowed parents to sue anyone who helps their child bypass the internet filter,” and an amendment was added to it “to ensure that such lawsuits could only be filed against adults, and not other children,” the report noted.

The GOP representatives who voted against it “cited their belief that the bill was government overreach, despite their concerns about pornography and the tech industry.”

‘A Matter of Parental Choice’

Tech industry reps spoke before the committee to oppose Udall’s bill.

“Instead of government mandates, we should have stakeholders come together to figure out how to best figure out how to use these tools to protect children,” Lisa McCabe of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association told the Arizona legislators. “I think it is a matter of parental choice.”

Leading anti-porn lobbying group, the religiously-inspired NCOSE (formerly known as Morality in Media), used part of their growing war chest to try to convinced legislators to support the measure.

One of the NCOSE-supporting legislators, Rep. Neal Carter (R-Queen Creek) overtly called for the reinstitution of the ancient obscenity prosecutions, noting that “pornography is not protected speech, and once upon a time the United States used to prosecute pornography. It is absolute the providence of this state to regulate pornography.”

Despite Carter’s outburst, longstanding jurisprudence has established that pornography is indeed protected by the First Amendment.

But Rep. Jacqueline Parker (R-Mesa) said, “Right now, their software is filtering porn. Who knows? Tomorrow, it could be filtering conservative material.”

War on Porn crusaders have been attempting to move forward with copycat bills in other states since Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox signed the nation’s original “mandatory porn filter” bill into law in March 2021.

That bill only passed after it was amended with the odd mandate that it “will not go into effect until five additional states have adopted similar language. It gives a 10-year period for that to occur,” the Salt Lake City Fox affiliate reported in February 2021.

Main Image: Rep. Michelle Udall (R-Mesa) (Source: Official portrait)

Feb 11, 2022 3:04 PM PST

LAS VEGAS — Lexi Luna is a featured guest on the podcast “In Love With The Process,” hosted by Mike Pecci.

Luna talked about how she entered the industry at age 26 after having spent five years in a career that lacked excitement. “Already on FetLife, she always had fantasies of being tied-up, and looked for information on how to do it safely, and learned about consent,” a rep explained.

When her contract for her non-adult job wasn’t renewed, Luna revealed how she was motivated to dive into the industry; she filmed her first scene with ClubDom in June 2016 and then worked for Reality Kings.

The rest of her interview touches upon the proliferation of free porn and catering to many types of fantasies, among other topics.

“I had a great time chatting with Mike,” Luna said. “It’s always nice talking about my career in a safe environment. We talked for a long time and it’s definitely worth a listen.”

Luna’s two-hour episode, titled “The Healthy Life of a Porn Star,” can be found here.

In related news, Luna is offering a Valentine’s special for those who purchase her official companion doll; click here for details.

Follow Lexi Luna on Twitter and find her premium social media links here.

Feb 11, 2022 2:50 PM PST

LAS VEGAS — Will Pounder reteams with Maddy May in a new clip helmed by Louis Wu, aka “Dr.K in LA.”

A rep noted Wu is billed as among the first directors from China to enter adult and “approaches content production with the goal of pursuing the artistic and dramatic elements of erotica.”

The “sleek, stylish” new clip featuring Pounder and May is the sixth installment in Wu’s “Dream or Real” series.

“This is my third time working with Will and he is definitely a great actor,” the director said. “He’s good at acting, passionate and understands 100% of what I’m thinking. Will has a great sense of humor and always smiles. He knows I have high demands on my dialogue, and he does it perfectly every time.”

“He’s been in the business for years, so he knows what it takes to be at his best, and I’ve really enjoyed my time working with Will. This time he and Maddy show you a truly unparalleled sex scene,” Wu continued.

The 26-minute “Dream or Real 6” can be viewed on ManyVids; find the director online.

Follow Louis Wu, Will Pounder and Maddy May on Twitter.

LOS ANGELES — Free Speech Coalition (FSC) issued today a statement explaining in detail why they are opposed to the controversial EARN IT Act, and also an explainer clarifying the implications of the widely condemned legislation sponsored by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina).

According to the adult industry trade group’s statement, the EARN IT Act, reintroduced into the Senate on Jan. 31, “looks to be one of the most dangerous censorship bills in recent history.”

“Because the stated goal of the bill is the prevention of child sex abuse material (CSAM), it has broad support,” the statement notes. “Unfortunately, the bill would have wide-ranging effects on free speech — particularly devastating to content involving sex and sex workers.”

If the EARN IT Act were to pass, FSC warns, “we would expect”:

• Widespread bans on sex-related content from mainstream social media
• Widespread deplatforming of sex workers
• Delisting of adult content in Google
• Increased surveillance of private messaging and cloud storage for sexual content
• Significant consolidation, with decreased options for creators and entrepreneurs in the fan and clip space
• Increased moderation costs for platforms that host user-generated content (UGC), and lower payouts for creators

The FSC emphasized it fully supports “efforts to stop the distribution of CSAM. However, the EARN IT Act’s vague wording would allow the prosecution of sites that are actively working to fight CSAM. It would encourage social media sites, cloud storage and web-hosting companies to ban adult accounts altogether. And it would permit vexatious litigation from anti-porn and anti-sex work groups as a backdoor method of censorship.”

The explainer also issued today, “The FSC Guide to the EARN IT Act,” elaborates on those bullet points and it can be perused here.

Visit FreesSpeechCoalition.com and follow them on Twitter.

For more of XBIZ’s coverage of the EARN IT Act, click here.

WASHINGTON — The controversial EARN IT Act, a proposed overhaul of internet rules that digital rights groups and sex worker advocates have overwhelmingly denounced as a threat to free speech, unanimously passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning and is moving forward towards a Senate vote.

The bill passed on a “voice vote” and without any formal hearings to address serious issues of privacy and free speech.

The bill was reintroduced with much fanfare 10 days ago by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut)  and has been rushed through the committee process with unusual speed for such an important law.

Promoted by Blumenthal in partnership with his South Carolina Republican colleague Lindsey Graham, EARN IT was initially introduced in 2020 and purports to have as its goal to “protect victims and survivors of child sexual exploitation.” In reality, however, it is a broad overhaul of Section 230 protections — known by online rights advocates as the First Amendment of the internet — which would strip platforms of immunity for third-party uploaded content.

As XBIZ has reported, EARN IT will also open the way for politicians to define the legal categories of “pornography” and “pornographic website” as they or the lobbies that fund them please, which is a cherished goal of organizations that seek to reintroduce obscenity prosecutions for content now protected by free speech jurisprudence.

EARN IT has been explicitly championed by top religiously-motivated anti-porn crusading groups such as NCOSE — formerly Morality in Media — which received advance notice of its reintroduction in January and has issued an overt endorsement in the past few days.

Several Senators Voice Serious Concerns

Though unanimous, today’s Judiciary Committee vote to hastily move EARN IT towards a Senate vote was preceded by several senators from both parties voicing serious concerns about its implications.

Senators Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), Alex Padilla (D-California) and Chris Coons (D-Delaware) all expressed personal reservations about EARN IT and shared comments they received from a vast number of organizations and constituents.

Though not a member of the Committee, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) — the senator with the most expertise on technology and the internet, and one of the drafters of Section 230 in 1996 — tweeted today that “the #EARNITAct is SESTA-FOSTA on steroids.”

Wyden added that “SESTA-FOSTA didn’t help victims” and included a link to a 2019 article showing that the much-criticized law had actually resulted in an increase in sex trafficking.

Top Civil Groups Sound the Alarm About EARN IT’s Implications

Yesterday the Center for Democracy and Technology issued a letter from a coalition of civil organizations urging the senators to kill the bill at the committee stage.

“The undersigned organizations write to express our strong opposition to the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2022 (EARN IT, S.3538),” the letter reads. “We support curbing the scourge of child exploitation online. However, EARN IT will actually make it harder for law enforcement to protect children. It will also result in online censorship that will disproportionately impact marginalized communities and will jeopardize access to encrypted services. Dozens of organizations and experts warned this committee of these risks when this bill was previously considered, and all of those same risks remain. We urge you to oppose this bill.”

The letter was signed by over 60 leading organizations including Free Speech Coalition, the ACLU, the American Library Association, Human Rights Campaign, LGBT Technology Partnership, the National Center for Transgender Equality, the National Coalition Against Censorship, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation and the Woodhull Freedom Foundation.

Gaslighting the Critics — and Klobuchar’s Pretzel Logic

But at today’s committee session, many of the senators chose to ignore these warnings and made dismissive statements that seemed to support their decision to hold the vote hastily and without any meaningful debate or formal hearings.

“I can’t imagine why anyone would oppose EARN IT,” said Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-California), gaslighting the letter by the civil groups into nonexistence.

“This is not an [anti-]encryption bill,” declared Sen. Blumenthal, even though much of the bill opens the door to allowing states to monitor private communications and digital storage. Blumenthal also offered a recitation of heinous crimes against children, without offering any evidence that EARN IT would prevent those crimes from happening.

The 75-year-old Connecticut senator — who has been in public office since the 1980s and recently showed evidence of not understanding how social media works by asking Facebook to ban “Finsta” — incorrectly stated that the only opposition to EARN IT comes from “Big Tech lobbyists.”

Meanwhile, in the middle of the conversation about EARN IT, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) expressed delight over the implications of the bill and offered to add his name to the list of official sponsors.

Finally, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) offered a troubling, authoritarian, circular-logic justification for rushing the bill through the legislative process: The sturdy opposition that is shaping up against EARN IT, she declared, is somehow proof that the law is needed.

Main Image: EARN IT Act co-sponsors Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina)

MONTREAL — Adult Time has debuted the first episode of Rocco Siffredi’s newest series, “Rocco’s Sex Clinic,” featuring Malena Nazionale, Angelica Heart and Vince Karter.

“Italian beauty Malena pays a visit to an idyllic outdoor paradise to find effective treatment for her erotic dysfunction; lucky for her, busty Angelica knows how to offer just the right amount of supportive assistance to get her back on track, a passionate poolside threeway in the sunshine with her and French swordsman Vince Karter,” noted a rep.

The series “also delights in the hedonistic talents” of Alyson Thor and Zaawaadi (set for release Feb. 17); Thor, Zaawaadi and Mike Chapman (Feb. 24); Eden Ivy, Yves Morgan and Jack Rippher (March 3); and Rippher with Zlata Shine (March 10).

“It’s the perfect cure for what ails you,” quipped the rep.

Explained Siffredi, “I’m very happy to introduce ‘Rocco’s Sex Clinic’ to fans, which is fresh, very high-quality and much lighter content.”

“The main character, Mike Chapman, is for me one of the best actors ever in the industry. His acting skills bring a great sense of improvisation, from the comedy to the sex and through the sex, no one is like him,” Siffredi said. “He never gives up his character until the very last second, continually surprising the audience.”

“The content has a touch of comedy. Nothing is dramatic, everything is fun, even when it looks dramatic, there is always a funny situation with each episode, or ‘treatment.’ The first scene is with Malena and Angelica, who is back to business after six years or more; she was so glamorous that I almost couldn’t recognize her when I first saw her again,” continued the director.

“We also have a new Italian talent, Alyson, in her feature debut for us. I have to say her all-girl scene with Zaawaadi was very well done, and by Zaawaadi as well. The scene ends in a threeway with Mike; it’s fantastic,” he noted. “I also loved Eden’s ‘shock therapy’ with Jack and Yves.
 
“Guys, don’t miss this new series, because you will have a lots of good moments for sure!” Siffredi concluded.

Find “Rocco’s Sex Clinic” on RoccoSiffredi.com and on Adult Time; follow Siffredi and the streaming service on Twitter.

LOS ANGELES — Wicked Sensual Care (WSC) has announced its newest “Retail Superstar” honoree is Alexis E. of Newman, Georgia’s Starship Enterprises.

“Whether it is to recognize the inspiring track record of a hardworking sales associate or to salute the exemplary contributions of an educator or gifted customer service specialist,” a rep noted, “each month a new superstar of the pleasure products space is interviewed for the WSC newsletter.”

Alexis was drawn to “the inclusive atmosphere Starship Enterprises provided.”

“I got into adult retail for the environment. I was able to be myself, to express myself freely. I felt comfortable being open to my peers and trying my best to help others feel the same way,” they recalled. “I love helping customers realize that the things we do are normal and nothing to be ashamed of.”

“My specialty is showing people products they didn’t even know existed,” they continued. “I love showing them new lubes and sensation gels, things they never would have chosen for themselves or considered before. Opening those doors for them is super-rewarding. It makes my customers, and myself, feel like they are getting the most out of their time in the store and in the bedroom.”

Their favorite part of the job is “being able to educate customers on how to be safe and healthy during their intimate times.”

“When you take the time to educate your customers, not only does it make them feel more comfortable and willing to communicate their needs to you, but it gives you a sense of purpose and makes me, in particular, feel like I am doing something worthwhile,” Alexis added.

Those working in the retail sector of the pleasure products space are invited to nominate employees and colleagues who continuously exceed expectations and deserve recognition for their ability to position themselves as product and industry experts.

“Knowledge is power and for our retailer partners, thorough product knowledge is key,” observed WSC Sales Director Jennifer Brice. “It is difficult to effectively sell to a customer if you can’t show how a particular product will address their individual needs. An employee like Alexis knows it is important that customers understand the value of the product, how the product should and can be used and what products work well together. Thank you for all your hard work, Alexis, we appreciate you!”

A superstar may be nominated by sending their name, store name, location/city, store social media handles and a brief paragraph about why they deserve to be a superstar to team@wickedsensualcare.com. Superstars may also self-nominate.

Visit WSC’s B2B portal and follow the company on Twitter.

LOS ANGELES — CAM4 will award several prizes during its yearly Valentine’s token sale this weekend beginning at 6 p.m. (PST) Saturday and ending at 12 a.m. (PST) on Tuesday, Feb. 15.

A purchase of 50 tokens or more equals one entry into the contest drawing.

“CAM4 is turning up the heat,” noted a rep. “This weekend, our contest gives viewers the chance to win a brand-new iPad plus make it rain 5,000 tokens on a broadcaster of their choice.”

CAM4 Communications Manager Shannon McD added, “We wanted to show our love and gratitude for our community this Valentine’s Day.”

“We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate this love-filled holiday than by creating a grand prize that benefits both fans and broadcasters alike,” they said.

Visit CAM4 online and on Twitter.